Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Monday 21 June 2004 03:21 pm, Ryan Nielsen wrote:
> I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup
> data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes),
> to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives.
> I tried two Maxtors previous and have swapped them out thinking it
> was a bad set of drives. I get various different errors copying
> files to these hard drives. I have tried different partitioning
> schemes, rsync instead of cp, and a few other methods, but I still
> get some form of error when I get into the process of copying.
>
> My only success has been with Knoppix. I used Knoppix and was able
> to copy and rsync just fine to these disks. I would like to use
> Debian, and not have to install another version of Debian or Linux.
>
> What I am getting at is, is there any problem with having a big
> partition or HD on a Debian system, or anything else someone might
> know? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ryan
I use a 250gb Maxtor (one partition, xfs fs) on a Debian Testing box as
storage with no problems. You might post the errors to see if anyone
can help.
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Greg Madden
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